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<xHOHENMEA (40)

Bromeliad Cultivar Register (14355) 2017-11-06

xHOHENMEA ‘Red Rover’ Draper R 2014

Mature, open, spreading, large rosette to 1.2 metres diameter x 80cm. high. Arching, scurfed, finely-spined, bronze green to garnet leaves (each to 6cm. wide). Erect or leaning, red stemmed inflorescence similar to the seed parent. Hanging scarlet peduncle bracts, densely-branched (upwards curving ) spike of light green "paddles" and orange flowers tipped white. Woody stolons to 15cm. long. Reg. Doc. 11/2017.
Country of origin: Queensland Australia

Seed Parent: Aechmea tessmannii x retusa Pollen Parent: Hohenbergia undulatifolia